Harry C. Bigglestone Award

This award is named to honor the memory of Harry C. Bigglestone, who served as a trustee of the Fire Protection Research Foundation and chair of the NFPA Committee on Central Station Signaling Systems and who was a fellow and past president of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. He was also executive director of the Pacific regional office of the Insurance Services Office and taught at Cogswell College in San Francisco.

The award is given annually to the paper appearing in Fire Technology that best represents excellence in the communication of fire protection concepts. Accompanying this award is a $5,000 cash prize from the Fire Protection Research Foundation.